Western anti-terror laws are forcing aid agencies in Syria to avoid communities controlled by extremist groups, making it harder to deliver vital supplies and leaving people vulnerable to radicalization, a Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation found. A survey of 21 international...

Russia said on Thursday the Syria ceasefire process was underway despite what it said were attempts by some U.S. officials to sabotage it, while reiterating that Russian warplanes would continue pounding what it called terrorist groups. The "cessation of hostilities" agreed by...

Russian warplanes bombed Syrian rebel-held areas in northwestern Syria and government forces pounded a suburb of the capital on Thursday, ahead of a planned halt to fighting which rebels predicted Damascus and Moscow would ignore. The "cessation of hostilities" agreed by the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- SDF, a Kurdish-led alliance backed by U.S.-led strikes, has launched new attacks on ISIS to capture further ground after a week of seizing al-Shadadi town in northeastern Hasakah province, activists said. Omar al-Shami, local activist, said SDF fighters backed by the U.S.-led...